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From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.70-mm3 - Oops and hang
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Andrew> This appears to be a visitation from the Great Unsolved Bug of
Andrew> the 2.5 series.  Someone playing with a freed task_struct.

Ouch, not a good thing.

Andrew> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this has only ever been seen with
Andrew> CONFIG_PREEMPT=y?

I can't say, but I'm willing to apply patches to see if I can help
track it down.  I'm about to put -mm7 up on my machine and let that
run for a while.  

Is there anything special you want me to do to stress this out?

John